The Cult of Western Self-Hatred and the Imported Arsonists

How Cowardice, Cognitive Dissonance, and Cultural Masochism Are Burning Down the Enlightenment

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No civilisation has ever survived by loathing itself. Yet here we stand, polishing the brass on a sinking ship, welcoming aboard those who openly disdain us, and congratulating ourselves on our virtue. What is called humility is, in truth, cultural seppuku performed to thunderous applause by both the imported pyromaniacs and their native fire marshals.

No civilisation worth its salt has ever survived by hating itself into oblivion, and yet we’re not just flirting with that fate—we’re writing it love letters.

George Orwell, that prophet of plain-speaking sanity, would’ve called it what it is: “a nation of sheep, bleating its demise” (1984, loosely paraphrased).

Christopher Hitchens, ever the acid-tongued realist, would’ve skewered it as “the grovelling appeasement of medieval fanatics by spineless liberals” (God Is Not Great, 2007). And here we are, Western society, preening in its masochistic glory, rolling out the red carpet for those who’d rather see it razed than reformed, armed with data that lays bare the suicidal folly of our ways.

In recent years, the Western world—Europe, North America, Australia—has been swamped by a record influx of asylum seekers, mostly Muslims fleeing Syria’s carnage and other failing states. The Pew Research Centre pegs Europe’s Muslim population alone at 25.8 million in mid-2016 (4.9% of the total), up from 19.5 million in 2010 (3.8%) (Europe’s Growing Muslim Population, 2017).